Bug 296251 (CVE-2007-1366) - CVE-2007-1366 xen aam instruction crash
Summary: CVE-2007-1366 xen aam instruction crash
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2007-1366
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2007-09-19 13:41 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2021-11-12 19:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-09-24 08:43:18 UTC
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Description Mark J. Cox 2007-09-19 13:41:41 UTC 
Tavis Ormandy discovered that the aam instruction can be
        abused to crash qemu through a division by zero, resulting in
        denial of service.

public via http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf
also see http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-05/msg00021.html
Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2007-09-24 08:43:18 UTC 
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect Xen as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.
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